The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-29

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The Illinois senate passed the state
fair bill with AN amenament nrating
the exhibition alternately at Chicago,
! Peoria, Decatur, and tentralia. The
house will hardly concur.
Martin Schneider, who died Monday
at Fort Wayne, at the age of 1872.
fought under Napoleon at Leipsic and
Waterloo. Last week he walked four
miles TO see grandchild.
Florence Greene, who last summer
saved her father from being carried
over the Lachine rapids, has been pre-
sented with the medal OF the Royal
Humane society OF England.
The interstate commission will soon
be presented with a petition for the
suspension of the long and short haul
clause of the law OIL through rates be-
tween Chicago and st. Paul.
The southern winds have rapidly
wasted away the ice i'll the Straits Of
Mackinac, and preparations for a
speedy opening of navigation are
being made at all the lake ports.
A contract for furnishing steel-gun
| forgings and armor plates. to the
amount of $4,512,93S was awarded by
Secretary Whitney to the Bethlehem
Iron company, of Pennsylvania.
Judge Dykerson, a distinguished
| attorney and democrat politician of
northern Indiana, lost his power Of
| speech, in a courtroom at Delphi,
while arguing in an insurance case.
A jury at Morris, Illinois, pro-
nounced Schwartz and Watt guilty of
the Rock Island train robbery and the
murder of Messenger Nichols, and
sentenced them to imprisonment tor
| life.
President Cleveland pardoned three
convicts from the Southern Illinois
penitentiary, OH Thursday. but re-
fused to interfere in behalf of b. Il. O..
Hubbard, the embeZZling Monmouth
banker.
A conductor on the Baltimore &
Ohio road, whose emigrant train was
caught in the cyclone of Friday after
noon, reports the birth of nine Ger
man babies between Bellaire and Mt.
Vernon.
Rev. S. Gerstman, rabbi of st.
Louis, who was lieutenant in the
Florida war, and was wounded in u
fight with the Seminoles, has been
granted arrears of pension amounting
to $4,000.
In the case of John Arensdorf, tried
at Sioux City for the murder of Rev.
George G. Haddock, the jury was dis
charged because of disagreement.
Eleven of its members were firm for
acquittal.
The city council of Laredo, Texas,
has granted to Mexican mining COM
pany ten acres of land and five years.
exemption from taxation, conditioned
upon the erection of a smelter to cost
ST 100000.
The steamer Tasmania has been
wrecked off the coast of Corsica with
$50 passengers. ALI the women and
children were taken off, and two
French steamers are assisting in the
work of rescue.
In the interest of the fruit and wine
crops of California, the board of trade
of Los Angeles has adopted resolu-
ton requesting the Interstate COM
merce commission to suspend section
of the new law. tt
Sarah e. Howe, the notorious Bos-
ton banker, served term in States
prison and then resumed business
among the credulous. 1t is now said
that she has fled with fifty thousand
dollars of deposits. $3.50 ~ ~
j. o. King, an old and prominent
citizen of Jacksonville, Illinois, ex-
PRED on Saturday evening. He i'll
augurated the movement for the es-
Establishment at that place of the blind
and insane asylums.
Sixty meat-dealers at Akron, Ohio,
recently refused to handle carcasses
shipped thither from Chicago by
Armour q Co. The firm opened three
retail markets and speedily brought
the boycott to close.
Rumors come from Lincoln, Ne
braska, that the Union Pacific main
line is likely to be surrendered to the
government, and the independent
branches organized into a Lincoln,
Denver and, Portland line.
The historical library of Professor
Won Ranke, of Berlin, containing
35, 900 volumes and $4,000 pamphlets
has been purchased for Syracuse uni
versity, and will next summer be
brought across the Atlantic.
During the coercion debate in the
British House of Commons, Sir Will
lam Harcourt observed that Irish
landlords should not complain of
American gold, as they received most
Of it through poor tenants rents.
The democratic caucus of the Flori-
da legislature adopted the two-thirds
rule, by which ffty-seven votes are
required for the nomination of
senator. Governor Perry has Az sup
porters and Ex-Governor Bloxham Al.
The survivors of General Pickett's
confederate division will on July
erect on the field of Gettysburg a
monument Of Virginia granite to
mark the spot where they made a he
rToic charge and pierced the Federal
line.
A company Incorporated in Ne
braska by Congressman George w. K.
Dorsey and others has for some time
been engaged in developing coal lands
at Glenrock, Wyoming, in advance of
the extension Of the Northwestern
road.